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UFC working on adding a women's strawweight division

UFC president Dana White appeared recently on the FoxSports.com podcast “The Fighter and the Kid." The show, just six weeks old, is hosted by UFC heavyweight Brendan Schaub and comedian Bryan Callen.

On the show White revealed the future of little women's MMA.

"I’ll give you guys something nobody knows yet," said White as transcribed by MMASucka. "We’re actually working on bringing in another division for the women, which I said would never happen for a long time."

The UFC currently has a women's bantamweight (135 lbs) division. White was asked if the new division would be Featherweight (145, hello Cris Cyborg) or flyweight (125).

White's reply was unexpected.

"Neither," said White, adding "115 lbs."

Top strawweight women fighters include Jessica Aguilar, JoJo Calderwood, Carla Esparza, Ayaka Hamasaki, Felice Herrig, and Bec Hyatt. Although the majority of the world's top women fighters are contracted with Invicta FC, Invicta and the UFC have an excellent working relationship of long standing, and there is every expectation that the organizations would come to terms.

Im surprised you didnt have sum shitty ass cheesy one liner to sum things up as you usually do. Wmma sucks what do you expect me to do? Im sure ud be willing to drop 50$ on an all womens mma card since youre such a huge fan of it?

The majority of the best female fights in the world fight in the 115lbs division. So it makes sense. 125 and 145 do not have the overall depth right now.

Dude, I’m a wrestler. I’m the best wrestler in MMA. Wrestling IS, was and always has been the most dominate form of mix martial art on the planet. That’s all there is to it. We all know it, some people want to fight it, some people want doubt it but wresters rule the MMA world. -
Ben Askren

Skipping a division also helps reduce the problem of division jumpers and superfight questions. While those can be good for promotions, they can distract when you have only the two divisions and a small talent pool